How many uninterrupted minutes per day does the speaker claim the average Fortune 500 CEO gets?

James LaughlinHigh-performance leadership and executive coach. Covering all aspects of life and career.

Are you part of the new RICH or the new POOR?

5 Sept 2023 · 1 min

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James Laughlin argues that modern technology fragments attention and creates a divide: the "new rich"—people who manage their focus and reduce distractions—will gain advantage, while the "new poor"—those addicted to technology and unable to focus—will fall behind. He cites an attention statistic about Fortune 500 CEOs to illustrate how little uninterrupted time people get.

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28 uninterrupted minutes per day.

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Most office workers never get an hour to themselves without being interrupted. The average CEO of a Fortune 500 company, for example, gets just 28 uninterrupted minutes a day. What? How insane is that? 28 uninterrupted minutes a day? I'm going to tell you something I firmly believe we're moving into a new age. There's going to be a new rich and a new poor. The new rich are going to be the humans who manage their focus, who understand that technology and other things at play are holding them back and distracting them. And they're going to put things in place to actually deal with it. The new poor are going to be the people who are addicted to their technology, who have no time to focus, who can't solve complex problems, who avoid thinking at all costs.